A new legend is born!
Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend have welcomed another child.
“She’s here! Esti Maxine Stephens – the house is buzzing and our family couldn’t be happier,” Teigen announced on Instagram, sharing a photo of her other kids, Luna, 6, and Miles, 4, holding the newborn .
“Daddy cries for joy every night to see Luna and Miles so full of love, and I learn you still need diapers with ac section!?” she continued.
“We’re in bliss,” Teigen concluded. “Thanks for all the love and well wishes – we all feel it!”
Legend shared the same photo, writing, “Our home is overflowing with love and joy.”
He added, “I’m in awe of Chrissy’s strength and resilience and I’m so excited to see Luna and Miles hug their little sister. I’m so, so grateful, but that doesn’t seem big enough.”
Teigen announced she was pregnant in August, nearly three years after the couple suffered a pregnancy loss, sharing on Instagram “the past few years have been a blur of emotion to say the least, but joy has filled our homes and hearts once again. ”
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“Every appointment I’ve said to myself, ‘Okay, if it’s healthy today, I’ll announce it,’ but then I breathe a sigh of relief to hear a heartbeat and decide I’m still too nervous,” she continued. “I don’t think I’ll ever leave an appointment with more excitement than nerves, but so far everything is perfect and beautiful and I feel hopeful and amazing. Ok phew, it was really hard to keep this up for so long!”
In 2020, Teigen and Legend lost their third child, Jack, at 20 weeks pregnant.
By sharing her pregnancy loss with the public, Teigen said she wanted to inspire women in similar circumstances. According to the Office on Women’s Health, pregnancy loss occurs in “as many as 10 to 15 percent of confirmed pregnancies.”
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“I’m happy to be the one who can shout loudly from the rooftops and talk about my uterus and talk about anything,” Teigen told USA TODAY in April 2021. do it too, then I’ll be that person and I’m happy to do it.”
In September, following the Supreme Court’s June overturn of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that protected the right to abortion, Teigen opened up about the loss in 2020, calling the medical event an abortion.
At a California summit, Teigen explained that “two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack, John, and my third child, I had a lot of tough and heartbreaking decisions to make. It became very clear half way through that he wasn’t going to.” survive, and I wouldn’t do that without some medical intervention,” said the Hollywood Reporter.
“Let’s just call it what it was: it was an abortion,” she added. “An abortion to save my life for a baby who had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never put that together until a few months ago.”
Contributors: Sara Moniuszko, Charles Trepany, Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY
Chrissy Teigen expecting baby with John Legend two years after losing the pregnancy
